Chapter 11

Sadie

Hello! I'm sorry for not updating sooner, but school starts in 2 days, so I've been busy. But, I finally have this done. I'm sorry if it's not written perfectly. So, yeah. Read away!

Sure, my day hadn't gone too well. I slept on a cold floor with Shelby huddled next to me, mumbling about Sparkle. I know, I shouldn't be too tough on her. This is a lot to take in, especially for a six year old, but I hardly got any sleep!

When I finally did fall asleep, I was awoken only minutes later (or so it felt) by two people poking me. They led us to a huge game-room type place and brought us stacks of buttery pancakes and mounds of warm bacon, but it was still an outrage!

And finally, after the boys walked in and tried to grab the last few pieces of bacon that were still on the plates, the house burst into flames.

I did what any regular teenage magician would do; I pointed at the door and shouted, "Maw!" and, to my surprise, it actually worked.

As soon as the flames had been doused, we rushed outside to see campers starting to run toward the Big House.

Carter and I exchanged a quick look, and we both understood what we were going to do. So, I scooped up Shelby, who was standing next to me, grabbed Walt's hand, and sprinted toward the border, my boyfriend in tow.

Carter had grabbed Zia and Felix, and everyone followed. But unfortunately, I forgot about the twenty fully-armed Greek soldiers standing in front of us. They easily caught us and hauled us back toward Chiron.

"You have to let us go!" Zia yelled.

"We can stop this!" Carter added.

"And how, exactly?" Annabeth asked.

"We just can!" I yelled at them. I was really starting to get annoyed, as my clothes were soaking wet, and the guards were hitting a pressure point on my wrist. "If you don't believe us, then come with us! We'll show you!"

Percy and Chiron had a mental chat, and Percy agreed to come. He rounded up Annabeth, the gothic chick I blew up that was apparently named Thalia, and Nico, a mini version of Anubis. Walt was eyeing Nico suspiciously.

We got to ride there on Pegasi, which are much more comfortable than a boat strapped underneath a griffin that could slice your head off if you stood up.

Shelby got to ride Sparkle, while everyone else got on a Pegasus. Walt was left without one, so I let him ride with me. Aren't I just the sweetest?

[Carter! My ribcage is very delicate, and it preferred it when you were tied in the corner. Keep it up, and my twine will hogtie you all over again.]

I really must get a better brother soon. Mine is so annoying.

Anyway, we flew toward Brooklyn House, dodging random things that fell from the sky. There was a huge pink hairbrush (don't ask), a meteorite the size of my head, seven red cows, and quite a few giant feathers that must have belonged to Horus.

[Listen, this story is going to get really boring really fast. So, I'm just going to fast forward a bit.]

So anyway, we arrived, Nico and Thalia almost got into a fight, we held a war meeting, a fire broke out on the roof, the ankle-biters almost killed Percy (which I would have paid money to see), and then the ground started rumbling.

So, we were standing on the roof (worst place to be during an earthquake) and everything started shaking.

We all leapt onto the Pegasi, who were whinnying franticly. None of us really cared who got on which horse with whom, we just got on and took to the sky.

I felt a little guilty leaving all of the initiates, but they could handle themselves.

After we were up about thirty feet, we finally looked around to see who ended up riding with whom, and laughing at the disastrous results.

Carter and Annabeth were on the same horse, and they quickly scooted away from each other. Walt was sharing his Pegasus with a very angry Zia, who looked like she wanted to kill Annabeth. Percy was sitting just behind Shelby, who was maneuvering the Pegasus even better than he possibly could.

I had to admit there were some pretty funny combos. I won't tell you all of them, but one was Seth and Jaz, who were both bright red, and Thalia with Felix and one of his penguins.

But, the worst was mine. Nico was sitting right behind me, hands on my waist, looking like he was going to puke. I had to admit he was a perfect copy of Anubis, only younger. Walt looked jealous, and as soon as Nico saw him, he scooted to the back of the Pegasus.

After everyone had gotten over their fits of laughter, we headed toward the camp. When I looked down, I saw several building crumbling. But, I was very happy to see several campers help survivors away from New York.

We didn't experience much trouble in the way to camp, just a couple minor burns. It could have been much, much worse.

The camp was almost empty when we arrived, but there were a couple kids trying to put out a few fires before they reached the trees.

Before we landed, Percy jumped off of his Pegasus and landed in the lake. Then, he sent a huge wave toward the forest. The nymphs were glad that the fires were out, but they hated getting too wet.

Everyone dismounted, and then went to find Chiron.

Chiron was talking to three kids near the Big House, which had been easily fixed by a little spell from Zia.

"-collapsed on top of him," one of the boys was saying. "We tried to dig him out, but nobody could find him."

"What? Who?" Annabeth asked frantically.

"Dylan, son of Athena," the boy said. When he saw Annabeth's grief-stricken face, he added, "but he died a hero. He saved us along with fifteen mortals from a burning building."

Annabeth just nodded.

"We need one child of every god to come with us to Olympus," Percy told Chiron. "We will head to Manhattan and find some."

"We can go with you!" the three campers said excitedly.

"Sweet!" Thalia said. "That's Hades, Poseidon, Zeus, Athena, Demeter, Hermes, and Apollo!"

"We are seriously going to need more Pegasi," Nico said.

"Brian, Cedric, and Nico, go round up every Pegasus you can find," Annabeth commanded the boys. "The rest of you, scout the entire camp and make sure there aren't any fires or crumbling buildings, and if there are, please fix them."

The initiates followed Annabeth's orders without question.

After about five minutes, we had every Pegasus we could possibly find, and every camper and initiate that was coming with us.

This time, we were extra careful not to share a Pegasus with the same people we did last time. I shared with Walt, Carter shared with Zia, Percy shared with Annabeth, et cetera.

I honestly don't want to go into detail about the flight. Let's just say the wind, rain, and clouds weren't on our side. The Pegasi decided to do some loopy-loops, and most of us ended up hurling on those poor survivors at street level.

When we arrived in Manhattan, we ran into four demigods and three Egyptians arguing.

I got off of my Pegasus and stomped over to them.

"What's going on?" I said angrily.

"They're getting in our way…" one demigod said.

"And they won't let us help!" one Egyptian shouted.

"Fine, demigods on 4th street, Egyptians on 5th, is that fair?" they all nodded and hurried off.

"Wow, you rock at scaring people!" Thalia said behind me.

"You should have seen her last week," Zia said. "It was her, versus every single initiate. She was guarding the candy drawer, and we ended up needing a new kitchen."

There were a couple laughs at that.

"Okay," Percy said, "how about Carter, Sadie, Zia, Annabeth, Thalia and I go find demigods, while the rest of you rescue mortals. Meet back here in fifteen minutes, and please don't lose the Pegasi."

So, we went to find the demigods. It wasn't exactly a hard job, because they were everywhere. We soon had a good-sized horde following us.

"Izzy," Annabeth was yelling. "Come with us!"

A tiny blonde girl, who must have been Izzy, stopped what looked like casting a spell, and ran over.

"Great!" Thalia said. "That's every cabin that we have members for!"

"Yup, and now we just need to get to Mount Olympus without getting shot with lightning." That was not the thing most people wanted to hear.

We sprinted back to the Pegasi. The other magicians were already waiting for us, so we all quickly mounted and flew toward the Empire State Building.

That was it! Remember, if you want more, then review! And, I'll try to write more when I figure out my school schedule and which teachers give out the least homework. So, I may be taking a week off of writing. Also, check out my other stories! Review, review, review! I am now done.